To speak of reality becoming a spectacle is a breathtaking provincialism. It universalizes the viewing habits of a small, educated population living in the rich part of the world, where news has been converted into entertainment—that mature style of viewing … Continue reading →

Photographs that everyone recognizes are now a constituent part of what a society chooses to think about, or delcares that it has chosen to think about. It calls these ideas “memories,” and that is, over the long run , … Continue reading →